Physicians' use of mobile devices to access electronic health records is expected to rise to 70% by the end of the year, according to a report released Tuesday by Black Book Market Research, Health Data Management reports.

For the report, Black Book surveyed about 6,000 physicians across several specialties (Slabodkin, Health Data Management, 7/22).

Survey Findings

Researchers found that:

• 52% of all ambulatory practice physicians currently use mobile devices to access EHRs or reference materials (Bresnick, Health IT Analytics, 7/22); and
• 31% of all respondents use smartphones for individual patient management strategies.

In addition, the survey found that the specialists who most often use mobile devices for daily patient management were:

• Emergency physicians;
• General surgeons;
• Ob-gyns;
• Orthopedic surgeons; and
• Radiologists (Black Book release, 7/21).

Top Mobile EHR Apps

Based on client and customer satisfaction scores, Black Book found that Drchrono is the top-rated mobile EHR application for the third consecutive year (Health Data Management, 7/22).

Other high-ranking mobile EHR application companies included:

• ADP AdvancedMD;
• Allscripts;
• athenahealth;
• Cerner;
• Greenway;
• HealthFusion;
• iPatientCare;
• Kareo; and
• PracticeFusion (Black Book release, 7/21).